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2020 Brunello Riserva – a worthwhile investment
If you appreciate wines that reflect vintage and terroir, the top 2020 Brunellos are well worth buying. Above, the Poggio di Sotto estate, which produced an outstanding Riserva in 2020...
Walter Speller
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See also Drinking history – Biondi Santi back to 1955.
There are many pretenders to the Montalcino wine throne but...
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Tasting 2004 Barolo and Barbaresco at 10 years of age last May during the annual presentation of the latest vintage...
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Although there was the odd disappointment, this collection of Barolo 2011s assembled in London by Joss Fowler of Fine +...
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Our Italian week continues with this ragbag of Tuscan wines tasted reasonably recently in London, and might be read in...
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With the precision of a Swiss clock, each February the Consorzio of Chianti Classico presents in Florence the new vintages...
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After the phenomenal success of 2010 Barolo, with many merchants claiming to have sold out of this superior vintage, all...
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12 Mar For today's Throwback Thursday, because Walter's four-part series has been so enthusiastically received, we are republishing the first...
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The final part of Walter's Italian Aussies is a selection of just some of the wines he tasted on his...
Don't quote me
See also part 1 and part 2 of Walter's report on the progress of Italian varieties in Australia. Although the...
Don't quote me
This is the continuation o f Walter's Italian grape varieties in Australia – part 1. Climate change is one of...
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In Mining Italy’s riches last June, an appreciation of some of Italy’s less mainstream wines, I drew attention to the...
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Two years after the Franciacorta Consorzio opened a London office (see Walter Speller's Franciacorta sets its sights on the UK)...
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See Walter's enthusiastic report on 159 Brunello di Montalcino 2010s. The photographs here and in the earlier report are his...
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The beginning of the new year in Italy transforms the sleepy, wintry hills of Tuscany into a hotbed of activity...
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I love Andrea Franchetti, founder of Tenuta di Trinoro in the vinous wilds of the Tuscan/Lazio border and, subsequently, Passiopisciaro...
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Now that Lambrusco is no longer unequivocally dismissed as cheap and nasty (see Tam's recent enthusiasm, for example), I can...
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